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“You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.”
“I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.”
“I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.”
“I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.”
“I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.”
“My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.”
“With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.”
“The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.”
“My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.”
“I'm not a big fan of mediocre.”
“Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.”
“I think families should vacation together, and cruising is a wonderful option.”
“Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.”
“You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.”
“I do pottery.”